Spiritual Direction

Spiritual direction is a relationship where you can explore your sense of connection, meaning making, and purpose in this life. It is a “companioning” model of care - meaning that while I have professional training to offer skilled support, it is a relationship of equals, where I walk alongside you in your spiritual journey. You are offered loving kindness, skilled listening, and thoughtful questions to invite deeper reflection and insight. It is a relationship where it is safe to bring whatever is real for you spiritually, whether it’s doubt and deep anger, or longings and tender experiences that feel sacred. All is welcome and honored.

Some common ways tending to your spirituality can take shape within spiritual direction include:

-Exploring the happenings and challenges in your life from a spiritual perspective

-Tuning into and strengthening your own innate knowing and sense of discernment

-Identifying spiritual beliefs and practices that feel most life giving, and at your discretion, examining and releasing beliefs that are limiting or harmful

-Being a companion for you as you explore your questions

-Holding space for sharing any transcendent experiences

-Cultivate and deepen spiritual connection to that which is beyond all names, but many call the universe, the divine, God, the sacred, a higher power, nature, love, ground of all being, a sense of "something more", etc.

A spiritual director is a midwife for the soul, offering compassionate presence as you bring to life your own wisdom, spiritual connection, and purpose, or: your higher self.

Spiritual direction can be especially helpful during or after crossing the threshold of loss, when life is forever changed. The death of someone dear to your heart, the end of a relationship, an illness, a faith crisis/transition/expansion, or any other experience of significant change in your life, can be spiritually disorienting, and may bring questions of the soul to the forefront. Compassionate listening and support can help you examine your loss and live into the questions on your heart. Many find spiritual direction to be an important and helpful resource during these seasons of life. As one tries to navigate the new landscape of life that is unfamiliar, having a thoughtful and wise companion on the journey can be stabilizing.